I don't use a filetree navigation system inside (neo)vim but occasionally when navigating through a comparatively large foreign codebase, it's nice to be able to know where and how a particular file is placed inside the project.

For this I wrote :Splitree, a user command which allows me to check current file's location inside current working directory.

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Requirements

• Neovim >= 0.8.0
• plenary.nvim (for asynchronous process execution)
• The Unix tree command available in $PATH

Installation and Usage

Install as any other normal plugin.

The :Splitree ex command can be registered through the setup method exposed by the splitree module.

It is possible to pass custom arguments to tree through the args key parameter.

Note

Specify arguments one at a time to avoid possible conflicts

require("splitree").setup({
    args = { "-I", "node_modules" },
})

If no arguments are passed, the default ones are used.

local def_args = {
    "-a", -- list all files
    "-l", -- follow symlinks
    "-n", -- turn off colorization
    "-F", -- append file type indicator
    "--dirsfirst", -- list directories first(!IMPORTANT!)
    "--gitignore", -- ignore git files
    "-I",
    ".git", -- ignore .git directory
}

Drawbacks

As of now, the logic that determines the location of the required file in the output buffer is quite fragile. I wrote it to serve my need without worrying much about optimization and potential edge cases still be present which may lead to failure in identification.

Secondly, it's not compatible with windows at this moment.

PRs addressing any of these issues are encouraged and welcomed.